The most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume, "The Visual Arts: A History" presents art as an integrated dimension of human activity. With insight and elegance, it offers an authoritative, balanced, and stimulating account of the arts - ranging from a statuette carved in central Europe some 30,000 years ago to contemporary installation pieces by Jenny Holzer and Gary Hill. The scope is international, including the art of Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The fine arts are represented of course, by painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, and photography. But so are other arts: textiles, coins, pottery, enamels, gold and silver work, Earth and Land Art, Body and Video Art, to name a few.
- ISBN10 0131833251
- ISBN13 9780131833258
- Publish Date 30 April 2003 (first published 1 October 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Professional Education
- Imprint Abrams Art History
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 928
- Language English